OCR

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tesseract-ocr

to OCR an image

  1. open ~/Applications/ControlCenter.sh, use custom scan toBWtiff
  2. get it on screen (big) and 'file/grab' it or take a snapshot of it
  3. saveas 'j' nocompress, noalpha, TIFF
  4. open a terminal and run ocrjtif (it is in $PATH in /opt/sbin) and then copy and paste the ocr'd text from the terminal window.